Issac Manriquez Manriquez, 22, accepted a plea bargain agreement on Sept. 6 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (second-degree felony) in front of 428th Judicial District  Judge Joe R. Pool in Hays County. According to court documents, the Kyle Police Department was advised that a female was...

HAYS COUNTY - Hays County Criminal District Attorney Kelly Higgins announced that several felony criminal cases have been resolved over the last two weeks with significant sentences. Thomas Pearl A Hays County jury found 41-year-old Thomas Pearl guilty on Friday, May 19, of Aggravated Assault and Ev...

Staff Report SAN MARCOS — San Marcos Police and the Criminal Investigation Division are examining the death of a 14-year-old girl after she was found unconscious in her bedroom at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 3. The family was instructed on CPR by 9-1-1 dispatchers, according to San Marcos offic...

  Hays County officials and residents gathered at the Hays County Courthouse Saturday to honor law enforcement personnel within Hays County that have given the ultimate sacrifice of giving their lives in the line of duty.   A proclamation was made by the Hays County Commissioners Court that recogniz...

UPDATE – Feb. 7, 1:20 p.m.  A Kyle man wanted in an injury to a child case has been arrested in Killeen, according to a city of San Marcos release. Richard Vincent Blythe, 19, of Kyle, was arrested Feb. 4 by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and is now in custody. An arrest warrant was issued Jan. 1...

Two Kyle residents have been indicted in connection with a major 20-person crime ring that stole more than $765,000 worth of heavy construction equipment over several years. An investigation into the theft ring, which involved 18 law enforcement agencies, confirmed the involvement of members and ass...

A Hays County Grand Jury Thursday indicted a man accused of shooting and killing San Marcos Police officer Kenneth Copeland in December 2017 for capital murder, according to a press release. Stewart Thomas Mettz, 58, of San Marcos, was indicted on capital murder, which is punishable by death or life...

Hays County authorities have now formally charged the man suspected of shooting and killing San Marcos Police officer Kenneth Copeland on Monday.     Stewart Thomas Mettz Stewart Thomas Mettz, 58, has been charged with capital murder of a peace officer. Mettz was also charged with injury to an elder...

Numerous law enforcement vehicles lined the normally quiet Steeplechase subdivision streets in Kyle to de-escalate an emergency situation last week.  Kyle Police, San Marcos Police, the Hays County Sheriff’s Office and the Hays County Special Weapons and Tactical (SWAT) unit were on scene for what w...

By ANDY SEVILLA A man accused in a double-shooting that left one man dead and another critically injured in San Marcos last week was found dead in a Lockhart home Friday. Cyrus Louis Amaya, 21, was the suspect in a Jan. 12 shooting at the Townwood Apartments that left Earl Edward Clark, 42, dead and...